HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to the first HomeBaker’s Club Update for 2024!

This month we have three bread recipes all ready for you to make in real time with me, and two additional “with bread” recipes to really make the most of what you’ve made.

Malted Cinnamon Buns

Up until now I’ve shied away slightly from the recipes you may already have in Bread Every Day, this one has been requested so much I couldn’t hold off any longer. Soft and sweet cinnamon buns with a malted note, covered with lashings of cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans.

Cous Cous Plait Rolls

In this brand new recipe just for the club, we’ll be using cous cous to bring a unique texture to the crumb, and knobbly crispiness to the crust of these plaited rolls reminiscent of an English muffin. Since cous cous is so absorbent, we ned to pull some tricks to be able to incorporate it into our bread dough with success, and a little extra effort at the shaping stage, a kind of half-plaiting, really makes them look just lovely.

No Knead Olive, Lemon and Garlic Focaccia

Another recipe, though slightly adapted, from Bread Every Day; my classic half milk, half water no knead focaccia. This time loaded with flavour, olives, lemon, garlic and plenty of fresh woody herbs with liberal use of olive oil bringing all that goodness deep into the dough. So fun to make, you’ll be swapping kneading for folding this wet dough, creating a bouncy and wobbly pillow of dough to hold plenty of bubbles as it puffs up lighter than a cloud.

And more…

This month in the “with bread” section we have two new recipes, hot smoked salmon and poached eggs on toast using our cous cous rolls as a base, and topping off with some refreshing green herb crème fraiche, and a pasta dish that’s so easy it almost didn’t make it to the club; garlic and chilli spaghetti with parmesan and black pepper. A dish I hold close to my heart from a past life working in a Sardinian family restaurant. Hope you like it.

Make these recipes and a whole load more with me, in the HomeBaker’s Club now.

Have fun :-)